* Could this be the year that law firms break out of their cycle of tepid growth? [American Lawyer]
* In ordinary times, Roy Moore’s laughable lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen would be bigger news. We do not live in ordinary times. [Law360]
* One would have thought “independence” would be “having a lifetime job with no oversight and an impossibly onerous removal process.” But, “independence” really means “only answering hypotheticals that don’t raise potentially serious questions about a guy’s fig leaf of a judicial philosophy.” This is why it’s so important to be a textualist! [Courthouse News Service]
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* It makes for a nice, vapid buzzword, but there actually is an “I” in “Team of Nine.” [National Law Journal]
* A federal judge has banned the Texas “bury your zygote” law. Don’t worry Texas, your boy Brett’s will make sure you don’t have to worry about this ever again. [NPR]
* Shocking no one, lawyers think Brexit was a bad idea. [Legalweek]
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* Oh, and we’re going to “open up libel laws” now. [CBS]